In the last two years I've been fortunate to do a lot of work in emerging technology, specifically work in the area of Cloud and Cloud computing. I've had the chance to work on upfront discussions and design with clients, and well as help clients...

IBM and Red Hat have been teaming up for years. Today, Red Hat and IBM are announcing a new collaboration to bring Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to IBM’s next-generation Power Systems through Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Power. A little more...

IBM supports many open source projects. One of the newest is Docker , a project for container-based virtualization that allows developers to encapsulate applications and dependencies and deploy them on Linux-based virtual machines. People are using...

On Wednesday, October 22, IBM will host its sixth Video Debates series: What’s Next for IT Infrastructure?, that brings together top IT experts to discuss the latest topics and trends on cloud, data and security as they relate to infrastructure. During...

Today, the IT infrastructure matters more than ever to clients across industries and geographies. The emergence of cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security technology bringing new challenges and new opportunities for organizations – large, medium or...

As business evolves so is the role of the CIO (Chief Information Officer). Today’s CIO is in an ideal position to take increasing responsibility and control. The CIO is one of the important hubs of decision-making across organizations today. I spend a...

IT infrastructure matters more than ever. The need to develop and manage a simplified, adaptive and responsive infrastructure has emerged as a top priority for organizations today. Let’s take a look at some of the common...

Today’s IT organizations face immense challenges. We often hear our clients telling us that in order to compete they must invest in their IT infrastructures to improve customer service, enable better decisions through improved use of data and enhance...

Recently, Thoughtsoncloud.com published a very interesting blog by Mike McGuire, Senior IT Architect for IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, which talks about choosing between managed and unmanaged IaaS . According to Mike, Infrastructure...

Recently, the thoughtsoncloud.com published a very interesting article: Three ways to stay up to date while working in IT , featuring Oscar Vega Rodriguez, Cloud Linux System Administrator for IBM Smart Cloud...

In this post I create a cloud application that is based on Bluemix, Cloudant DB and NodeExpress. NodeExpress is used to perform DB operations on CloudantDB The code can be forked from Devops from bluemix-cloudant-exp . You can also...

Software-defined is emerging as a hot topic among organizations as a means to transform data centers into an IT facility focused on increasing the agility and speed at which they support their application and increase developer productivity. Now that...

IBM’s newly released Institute of Business Value study - IT infrastructure conversation: New content, new participants, new tone, highlighted some of the mind-boggling findings on why IT infrastructure matters. Based on the responses...

IBM continues to demonstrate its thought leadership in the Mobility space. Recently on Wednesday August 6th 2014, IBM announced that Gartner has acknowledged IBM as a leader in the 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant f...

I am writing this blog as a summary of the very interesting article published recently on Forbes.com : “ What’s The Best Cloud For Companies? Try Hybrid ” featuring Lance Crosby, CEO and President, IBM...

Recently, Forbes.com has published a very interesting article titled: Three Ways Companies Can Convert To Cloud Computing , featuring Tom Rosamilia, Senior Vice President for IBM Systems & Technology Group and Integrated...

As an IBM Cloud Architect for the past 6 years I have focused on the development, delivery and the maturity of cloud computing implementation with clients, partners and service providers. Recently the focus of “Hybrid” cloud services and...

In my first post , I discussed how combining Software Defined Environments (SDE) and deployment automation reduces application delivery time and increases agility. In this post, I look at these capabilities in greater depth. In...

IBM recently announced Elastic Storage on Cloud , a software defined storage-as-a-service offering on IBM SoftLayer that provides high performance data management and storage in the cloud to organizations as well as seamless data transfer...

It’s been just a year after its acquisition; SoftLayer has become the galvanizing force behind IBM's rapid acceleration to cloud leadership. In July 2013, IBM bought SoftLayer for $2 billion and has continued to invest...

Yes, good days in Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) have arrived! IBM recently announced that the Bluemix platform will now be officially available as a commercial offering. PaaS is a service model where providers deliver infrastructure as well as middleware...

The latest global analysis from Synergy Research Group positions IBM among the top three providers in the cloud market for the first quarter of 2014. The leading research group, Synergy Research also acknowledged IBM as the leader in private and...

IBM is a strong believer in the open standards approach of OpenStack for Cloud middleware, and IBM is now delivering a great new product, Cloud Manager with OpenStack 4.1 (CMO) , based on the latest OpenStack Icehouse...

Today businesses are increasingly turning to private and hybrid cloud solutions to reduce costs and enable more flexible and scalable business processes. These cloud enabled infrastructures involve complex management and operational...

The IBM Software Defined Environments (SDE) team is working hard at an end-to-end infrastructure solution, and we were able to demo some great results at the Edge2014 conference held from May 19-23 in Las Vegas. During the conference, we...